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Thanks for the video. I am curious about Mercury's Lagrange points. Per the video, they should theoretically exist ... but have astronomers observed natural sa

Thanks for the video. I am curious about Mercury's Lagrange points. Per the video, they should theoretically exist ... but have astronomers observed natural satellites at those locations, like the corresponding points for Earth or the Jupiter trojans?

ncmncm 5y ago
No. Mercury's L4 and L5 points are dominated by Venus and Earth perturbations, much as Mars's are by Jupiter.